The FAA is proposing a $275,000 civil penalty against Pinnacle Airlines of Memphis for allegedly operating a Bombardier CRJ900 on 11 flights without all required parts fitted. According to the FAA, Pinnacle mechanics failed to replace a part required in the approved aircraft maintenance manual when they replaced the aircraft’s right engine. A source close to the Pinnacle flight crew told AIN on condition of anonymity that the missing part was the second engine mount used to hold the powerplant… (www.ainonline.com) Mehr...

There is a good possibility here of that. One of our contributors here works for them in MEM, and while this was before his time there, he cannot see how it would fly, let alone make 11 flights, without that mount

This is the third fine in the last couple of years. I think they were fined $625,000 for having the flt crew do maintenance on a door instead of ground crews. $415,000 for not adequately monitoring a crack on another CRJ. No wonder they are in bancrupcy protection. Another subsidiary, Colgan, faced a 1.9 million dollar fine. No wonder they shut it down last October.Great way to keep the FAA running. At this rate they will be a profit making enterprise for the government. (the only one)LOL

Don't know how they can be too profit making when moving at the usual speed of government. This is from back in October of 2010, 2 1/2 years ago, and to boot, with Pinnacle in BR, all they can do is file notice of the claim and in or out of BR, once it ever gets argued,they will collect less than half that, if any. You mentioned the earlier fines. WHAT, out of those, did they wind up colleting.

The FAA is proposing a $275,000 civil penalty against Pinnacle Airlines of Memphis for allegedly operating a Bombardier CRJ900 on 11 flights without all required parts fitted. According to the FAA, Pinnacle mechanics failed to replace a part required in the approved aircraft maintenance manual when they replaced the aircraft’s right engine. A source close to the Pinnacle flight crew told AIN on condition of anonymity that the missing part was the second engine mount used to hold the powerplant in place.